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2018 Deschutes County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Deschutes County, OR went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Oregon average 2.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 34 Oregon counties and 2300th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Deschutes County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2018 00:15 | May 16, 2018 00:45 | 30m | 11,167 | 2,795 |
| 2 | May 1, 2018 22:30 | May 1, 2018 23:45 | 1h 15m | 10,834 | 8,126 |
| 3 | July 14, 2018 13:00 | July 14, 2018 22:00 | 9h | 9,923 | 18K |
| 4 | June 28, 2018 04:30 | June 28, 2018 12:00 | 7h 30m | 4,810 | 7,389 |
| 5 | July 20, 2018 12:45 | July 20, 2018 22:00 | 9h 15m | 4,772 | 10K |
| 6 | June 20, 2018 22:45 | June 21, 2018 07:00 | 8h 15m | 2,080 | 3,581 |
| 7 | December 13, 2018 17:45 | December 14, 2018 05:15 | 11h 30m | 1,972 | 1,014 |
| 8 | February 21, 2018 01:15 | February 22, 2018 00:45 | 23h 30m | 1,313 | 5,368 |
| 9 | February 19, 2018 04:30 | February 19, 2018 07:45 | 3h 15m | 1,304 | 4,238 |
| 10 | September 12, 2018 19:15 | September 13, 2018 03:30 | 8h 15m | 1,224 | 1,288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 63 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Deschutes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop Inc - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midstate Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 75% of Oregon's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 141,071 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Deschutes County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deschutes County, OR annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/oregon/deschutes-county